Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked on the streets the warfare their older brothers were waging in Europe and in the Pacific...
...bartender at the quietly aristocratic Plaza, a hotel which was frequented by many rich and famous men of the day, among them Diamond Jim Brady-"an overstuffed pig, with his stickpins all in little animal shapes." O'Dwyer stayed there three years, studying shorthand in his spare time, brushing up on his Spanish, and yearning for the export business. Then came disillusionment; the export business wanted no part of a bartender...
...bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while she paints...
...they have little spare time. Between them, the Cowleses figure they put in about 32 hours a day thinking and arguing about Look. "Our real board meetings," Fleur says, "are held in our library between...
...Rome last week, Pope Pius XII reminded the International College of Surgeons that their moral duty is to spare unborn infants even at the risk of their mothers' lives. Surgeons, he said, should not heed "the understandable anguish of husbandly love" when faced with such a choice. "God alone is Lord of life...